Sentences with phrase «symbolism which»

The gesture of pouring the soil of the country into Vincent Lingiari's hands has a depth of symbolism which satisfies the common human need for ceremony to mark out significant events.

The striking image is heavy with symbolism which along with the intense light give it a dreamlike quality.

Bring It On is the sort of mindless fluff I would expect on the Disney channel to pass for «quality entertainment», but I doubt they would let the multitudinous cheesecake shots and phallic symbolism which permeate nearly every scene play on regular family television.

Rather it is, as already stated, a repudiation of the dilemma with respect to its failure to include in its description of the contents of the mind the aspect of symbolism which, to Whitehead, is as important as the aspect of mere perceptual contents.2

This is the Old Testament symbolism which became reality when Christ shed his blood to return unity between God and man.

Buber's I - Thou philosophy implies a radical reversal of the idealist and mystical attitude toward symbolism which sees the symbol as the concrete manifestation of some universal if not directly knowable reality.

The second way is as symbolism which represents a structure that may have no necessary relation to a computer.

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He backs up that symbolism with an array of metrics, 80 % of which relate to what customers care about.

The festival of lights, which is rich with symbolism, was conceived during one of darkest periods in Los Angeles» history, during a key moment in the civil rights movement.

What an awesome dream with rich symbolism... the library indicating a search for knowledge, the ladders which typify a journey toward higher awareness, and of course, the mysterious book which might symbolize many things...

fail to understand the rich vocabulary of symbolism provided by etiquette, which enables people to recognize essential attributes or intentions of others, such as that a man wearing a tie is treating the occasion seriously.

Even those who demand their own sartorial freedom from symbolism would not hire a defense lawyer who wore pajamas (which would serve the practical function of covering the body as well as a suit) to court, or submit to an operation by a brain surgeon who wore a Dracula sweatshirt in his consulting room.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

Here too is a poetic affirmation which no literalism can reduce to its own scales and balances, and no symbolism or imagery exhaust.

Fallon says, «The sacramentalism» which characterizes true Christianity should help us see what there is of positive value in the «symbolism» of the Hindu religious world.»

But in a secular society in which churches have not shown an interest in the visual arts, artists have tended to create their own private religious symbolism.

That was followed by their global hit «Viva La Vida» which is full of Christian symbolism as it references the bells of Jerusalem, missionaries in a foreign field, but also the cryptic line «I know St Peter won't call my name» which has always struck me as challenging.

But once (within marriage) generosity has been fulfilled in a particular couple (which only they can determine in conscience), need «each and every act of sexual intercourse» be open to the gift of children without destroying the symbolism of the conjugal act as complete self - gift to each other?

French Symbolism and English Romanticism, both of which became transformative international movements, each began with a handful of writers.

A symbol is not a concrete medium for the knowledge of some universal, if not directly knowable reality — though this is the way in which most writers on symbolism from Plato and Plotinus to Urban, Coomaraswamy, and Jung have treated it.

Indeed, the social sciences themselves seem to be rediscovering the sacred in unexpected places, among which are the sanctuaries of symbolism and religious discourse.

The profound extent to which our experience is shaped by symbolism has been amply demonstrated by empirical research.

The primacy of this task, and the derivative nature of a rationalistic aesthetic, is best understood when Whitehead is seen in a line of radical empiricists, a position which is most evident in his Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect and Modes of Thought.

And even though I don't believe in the symbolism of the cross, I can not deny the historical role this particular «cross» artifact had in the aftermath of the tragedy as a meeting and prayer place for rescue workers etc., which makes it museum worthy.

Already, studies have been appearing in which greater attention is given to religious and political symbolism.15 Some studies have also begun to locate symbolism more squarely in the domain of everyday social practice, including discourse.

Only by its incarnation in repeatedly reinterpreted ancient symbolism, by which the word is continually reduced to essentials, can the word speak to the heart as well as to the intelligence and the will — in short, to the whole person.»

But he says this symbolism is «adherent,, rather than being a true act of language (a true act of language being, for example, the metaphor, which is a free invention of speech).

In the form in which this coming kingdom was eventually delineated, as divine victory and the final consummation of Christ's work on earth in both judgment and mercy, the biblical symbolism of Christ's return becomes meaningful.

It is not enough merely to abandon the elaborate mythological symbolism, nor to define eschatology as that which lies «beyond the bounds of time and space».

It was a practice which was already widely used among numerous groups in that day and culture, and which already had clear symbolism and significance.

Instead, He took a meal that they were already eating on a regular basis, which was already full of symbolism and significance, and then pointed all of the symbols and meaning to Himself.

Examining personal diaries, newspaper reports and advertisements from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Schmidt noted the way Christmas was once celebrated in department stores like Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, which featured hymn - singing and elaborate religious symbolism that turned the store's cathedral - like central area into a commercialized version of a church.

Grace stands opposed to works of the law, which Paul's dualistic symbolism often puts in the same group as sin and death.

He speaks about the symbolism of numbers, the «golden ratio» or «golden section'that is found throughout nature, and symmetry, in which complexity and unity converge.

This requires appreciating anew the nature of symbolism, the analogy of being which it presupposes, and an alternative vision of mathematics, what Caldecott calls «the lost wisdom of the world».

MM: When you are just looking at a pattern which you are able to prehend, the pattern isn't anywhere out there — as when he talks about the artist seeing a pattern at the beginning of the essay on Symbolism.

But it is a ground which is obviously present in Buddhism, and far more so here than in any other religious language or symbolism.

On the pulpit or lectern in Protestant churches is a Bible, which, if the symbolism is rightly maintained, ought to be an open Bible.

It is this chapter which is most often preached at baptismal services, and these are the Scriptures people go to when they want to talk about the symbolism, necessity, and power of baptism.

«15 Moreover, Whitehead emphasizes that symbolic reference, at least in human symbolisms, is generally a two - way affair in which the symbol and the symbolized are frequently interchangeable, a situation that suggests a reciprocal interaction between secondary (poetic) imagination and the social or cultural aspect of symbolizing.16

Pastors should also be capable of detecting the symbolism both of words and of earthly events — the analogies of faith — through which the deeper meaning of the divine mystery discloses itself.

By utilizing objects which can be correlated with sense experience symbolism mediates cosmic value to us.

For the third group, who take symbolism seriously, religion is seen as a system of symbols which is neither simply objective nor simply subjective, but which links subject and object in a way that transfigures reality or even, in a sense, creates reality.

This is a gift which the symbolism of the sacramental rites are designed to signify.

It is the image of a suffering God presented in the symbolism of Christian faith that has led me toward Whitehead's thought as an approach to cosmology which corresponds in most respects with the Christian symbolism.

It is at this pole that all beings experience God as the silent horizon of their actuality, as the source of their intrinsic order, as the lure summoning them toward self - transcendence and, finally, as the care into which their existence is ultimately synthesized.14 Religious symbolism represents this felt ultimacy and care by couching it in images that we may correlate with the secondary pole of perception and with our concretely limited historical experience.

Whitehead» s view of language — which he himself never develops, not even in the essay on Symbolism — is an almost incidental result of his view of sense - awareness, and of the primacy (once you start from sense - awareness) of the absolutely fundamental process which he calls «the passage of nature.»

Thus, identifying symbols which more effectively discover the meaning, value, and purpose in women's experience is a feminist goal which receives philosophical impetus from Whitehead's theory of symbolism.

Moreover, Whitehead understands symbolism as an interpretative judgment which not only reflects the biases and assumptions of its society but also is subject to error because of tendencies to oversimplify experience (MT 21).

Within the esoteric tradition of these schools, hand and finger symbolism was cultivated to an incredibly skillful and complicated system of expression which makes it possible to express through finger and hand symbols the whole content of the school's secret doctrine in one worship service.